Hey Michael,
There is a utility that installs as part of mac os 10.5 called Bootcamp, and
this is Apple's answer to how you'd install windows. Basically, you'd need
a copy of either Windows XP SP2 or any version of Vista, and the drivers and
suchlike are all provided for you by Apple on the 10.5 OS DVD. To go this
route, you'll also be needing a hand from someone with at least half decent
sight, because although Bootcamp is accessible in leopard, once you restart
and the windows instalation kicks in, there is no speech available to get
you through the Windows instal, and no native windows drivers that bring you
sound up straight away. If you've never done instalations and such before,
don't worry, this is all a lot easier than it sounds. There's a bootcamp
easy instal guide thingy that walks you through it step by step.
Once windows and the drivers are installed, you can indeed continue to use
the cam and the mic in your macbook. Not sure if it's running where you are
or when you purchased your mac, but I know that here in the UK Apple are
doing a promotion called up2date that allows users who purchased in the last
few months to pick up a leopard upgrade cheap as chips. How accessible the
instalation is from the upgrade CD I don't know, but i'm sure someone else
will chime in here if there's issues.
Hope that helps
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:09 AM
Subject: a question about mac/windows
hi all;
so i'm thinking about giving up the mac for a windows machine, but i like
the style of the macbook, and like just the layout, but i need to do some
windows things. If i upgrade to macosx 10.5 (using 10.4 right now), dont i
get osmething with it that will make it easy to install windows with it?
How should i do this? or can i give up the mac operating system completely
and just install windows?
Can i still use the camra, and the mic that's built in to the macbook? If i
go to windows?
Give me all your tips on this please!
michael
